The First Gongsheng of Ming Dynasty

Chapter 91 Different Levels
Zhang Zhou entered the palace again.

This time he was going to inspect the progress of the reconstruction of Qingning Palace.

Xiao Jing was in charge of taking him there, telling him about the current preparations along the way, and Zhang Zhou was also in the right ear, he didn't know engineering and construction, and even the knowledge of metaphysics was crammed.

"Eunuch Xiao, how much has been spent on rebuilding the Qingning Palace, excluding the purchase cost?"

Zhang Zhou interrupted Xiao Jing's words suddenly, and asked another question.

Xiao Jing looked at him, even slowed down his steps, and said with a wry smile: "Mr. Zhang, why do you ask this?"

Zhang Zhou said seriously: "I am not a palace official. I am in charge of building Qingning Palace for the imperial palace. Of course, I must understand His Majesty's frugal intentions and try to use the least amount of money to build the best palace. I have always been the most frugal!"

Xiao Jing thought to himself, he saw it.

You are not thrifty, you are stingy.

"Mr. Zhang, please forgive our family for saying something that is not pleasant. The key to running an imperial mission is to satisfy all parties. As for how much money you save, it is really not the point."

Xiao Jing expressed his opinion euphemistically.

Zhang Zhou smiled and said: "Eunuch Xiao, I understand what you mean, but what you said is the thoughts of the palace people. You need to manage the relationship between all parties, because you can always get involved in the future if you don't see each other. On. But I’m different, I’m a commoner, and I don’t hang out in the palace, so I probably won’t enter the palace again after this matter is over, for me, quality and cheap are the kingly way.”

"Hehe, Mr. Zhang is joking, this is not grocery shopping."

Xiao Jing smiled wryly.

He was also pondering in his heart that Zhang Zhou's awareness was not simple, and what he said was in line with the current status of palace people's work.

Probably only a "wild way" like Zhang Zhou didn't have to worry about the empress, Zhang's relatives, the relationship between Zhang and Zhou's two families, Li Guang's old department, and other things that people in the palace cared about.

Because they play with pens, they are different from those who are struggling in the palace.

Just as they were talking, the two had arrived at the former site of Qingning Palace.

At this time, hundreds of craftsmen were working, and the original black ruins were gone, but a hole was dug on the site, and the soil was transported out by wheelbarrows one by one, and then piled up on the side. This is before the foundation was laid. preparation, followed by backfilling.

Xiao Jingdao: "Mr. Zhang, do you think this orientation is correct? Now the prototype of the foundation has been dug. After you have seen it, there is no problem before you will ram the earth and set up stones."

Now the people in the palace also know that this matter is no small matter. If the house is repaired again, there will be some disasters. The emperor will pursue it and say that he did not adopt Zhang Zhou's opinion... It is estimated that it will not be as simple as imprisonment and distribution, but the death of the head.

So now every step of Qingning Palace, Zhang Zhou has to come to inspect it in person.

It's not that Zhang Zhou's opinion is so important, but that... this matter needs the endorsement of Zhang Zhou, a "half immortal".

Zhang Zhou seemed to be making gestures with his arms.

At this time, everyone in the construction site stopped what they were doing, knowing that the Great God was coming, and wanted to see how the Great God calculated the dragon's veins and Feng Shui, but when they saw Zhang Zhou gesticulating with his arms...

Everyone has never seen such a mysterious thing.

The kind of "So the master works like this, he doesn't even need a compass, and it really isn't comparable to the kind of magic stick who likes to bluff and deceive" endlessly.

Xiao Jing looked at it for a long time, but didn't understand it, and asked: "Mr. Zhang, do you need to prepare something for you?"

Zhang Zhou put his arms down and said with a smile, "No, the location is pretty good. As long as the fire is not artificially set, the fire from the sky alone should not be able to fall."

"Uh……"

Xiao Jing was pushed to the point that he was not very good at answering.

Man-made arson...

Zhang Zhou still understands the ways of the world, and he probably knows that someone might find him unhappy and set fire to him, so it's useless to test it now.

As for Tianhuo, did it come as soon as it was said?

"However, there are some ways to avoid the sky fire, you still need to pay attention to it. This is a blueprint I drew, and I will ask someone to refer to it. I am going to add a sky-reaching needle on the roof!"

"What?"

"It's the way to divert the skyfire, you don't understand even if you tell me."

Xiao Jing was very depressed when he heard that.

I said in my heart that if you hadn't really been able to calculate the secret, I really thought you were some low-level charlatan who didn't even know a little bit of professional knowledge, just talking nonsense.

But as expected, as those outsiders see it, you are quite different from Taoist priests who like to pretend to be gods and ghosts.

You probably don't even bother to engage in Taoist priests dancing to great gods, do you?

This should be the real skill in the legend!

"Cough cough!"

Zhang Zhou coughed twice on purpose to remind Xiao Jing that I still have the blueprints here, so why don't you ask someone to come over to take a look first.

Only then did Xiao Jing regain his senses, and greeted the people in the distance: "Come here, come and help the Celestial Master!"

A General Banner of Jinyiwei, which Zhang Zhou felt very familiar, trotted all the way over, knelt down and kowtowed to Zhang Zhou.

"The villain, Zhang Yun, has met the immortal teacher and the factory grandfather."

It's this one again!

Zhang Zhou didn't know why, but when he saw this kid, he wanted to kick him twice, flattering him so badly.

Xiao Jingdao: "Zhang Yun, our family still has something to do, please greet Mr. Zhang well, if the hospitality is not good, you are just asking!"

"Okay!"

Zhang Yun got up and hurried to pick up the blueprint in Zhang Zhou's hand.

It was Zhang Zhou who folded the drawing and put it in his pocket again.

For this kid, if it is damaged again, you will have to repaint it later, which will take an extra process.

……

……

Xiao Jing left, and Zhang Yun accompanied Zhang Zhou around the construction site. Although Zhang Yun is just a general banner, but because he is the head of the East Factory, he is several grades higher than Fanzi and ordinary Jinyiwei, and he is very comfortable wherever he goes. se.

"Work hard, don't make things difficult for the immortal master!"

Zhang Zhou found out that this kid seemed to come to be close to the big tree.

Why do you feel that this kid is pretending to be a tiger?
"Master Immortal, after I went back, I asked my family to check the genealogy. I don't know if I don't check it. It turns out that the younger one moved from Yingtian Mansion three generations ago. Maybe we were still a family a hundred years ago..."

Zhang Yun has already started a relationship with Zhang Zhou.

Those who speak with a nose and eyes are probably talking about Yongle's relocation of the capital.

"Really?" Zhang Zhou said, "My family didn't live in Yingtian Mansion three generations ago."

"This……"

The smile on Zhang Yun's face was a bit stiff, "The little one should have known the immortal master in his previous life, otherwise he wouldn't have met the immortal master just like seeing his own relatives? The little one used to have dreams, dreaming that there are gods coming from the sky Picking up the younger ones, saying that you can take the younger ones into the immortal class, and telling others that everyone else is a hysterical kid, and now the younger ones understand that this is God guiding the younger ones to do things with you, the immortal master."

Zhang Zhou was very speechless.

After you talk about your ancestors and your past life, you talk about your dreams after talking about your past life.

Do you have to let me wear it even if you have a big dream?

Zhang Zhou was very disdainful of Zhang Yun's approach, and he figured out one thing, no matter how hardworking and reliable a person is, he will not be able to make a success in Dongchang.

The Ming Dynasty was not the time when the founding of the country or after the Jingnan disaster, the bureaucracy, especially the Dongchang, after decades of rudimentary conservatism, it is impossible to have a normal promotion channel to the people at the bottom who can handle things.

When Li Guang falls, there must be another Li Guang.

This is not a personal need, but a systemic need.

This also explained why Zhang Yun knew that it would be shameless to do so, so he had to put on a big face to seek a relationship with him.

Zhang Zhoudao: "Really? But I have never dreamed about the fairy family, nor have I received any guidance. What I dreamed was to be listed on the gold list. Your Excellency, is this God guiding you to seek refuge?" The other person, was you mistaken?"

"No, no, ever since the villain saw the immortal master, he must be the immortal master! That's right!"

Zhang Yun looked determined.

Zhang Zhou frowned secretly.

When your heart said this, did you believe it in your heart?

Just as he was talking, there was a commotion in the distance, but it was the Dongchang eunuch whom he had seen before, that is, Yang Peng, who was inserted by Li Guangan as Xiao Jing's right-hand man in Dongchang, came over surrounded by everyone.

"Go away!"

As soon as Yang Peng came over, he turned pale, and now Zhang Yun handed over the ordinary Zhang Zhou's task in a daze.

Only then did Yang Peng salute Zhang Zhou: "Yang has met Immortal Master Zhang."

Zhang Zhou said: "You are Yang Peng, Eunuch Yang, right?"

"Exactly, it's rare that Immortal Master Zhang still remembers the name of someone who is responsible for the implementation of the reconstruction of Qingning Palace in the palace. If you have any orders, just tell someone."

Yang Peng looked much more normal than Zhang Yun, a flatterer.

Probably Yang Peng is also in a high position, and he is a little embarrassing. If this is an ordinary Gongsheng in front of Yang Peng, he will not take him seriously if he recognizes him as a grandfather and kowtows to him.

Zhang Zhoudao: "Finally, a person in charge came. I want to add a Tongtian Needle to the newly built palace. Here is the blueprint. Do you think there is a problem?"

Yang Pengzheng said fearfully: "Master Zhang Xian, you are talking and laughing, you are the one who is ordered by the imperial court, and a certain person is just following orders. You can add whatever you want, and you can add it wherever you want."

"Ah."

What Zhang Zhou wanted to add was, of course, the lightning rod.

There are also things similar to lightning rods these days, but because there is no grounding wire, the lightning rods these days are more like metaphysics to suppress ghosts and gods, and they do not have the effect of lightning protection.

"Okay, let's start. Hurry up and fix the foundation, and finish it as soon as possible, so you don't have to wait for me for everything."

Zhang Zhou understood that since he was the number one person in charge, he was actually the number one person in charge. If something happened, he might have to bear it.

Others may not be able to afford it either.

Yang Peng invited Zhang Zhou aside and said, "Master Zhang, someone heard that your house is being rebuilt recently. I wonder if someone can help you?"

Listening to Zhang Zhou, he immediately felt that Yang Peng and Zhang Yun were of different levels.

Zhang Yun's flattery is purely to say beautiful words, what kind of fairy teacher and Xianmeng talk about Datong, just to express his willingness to be loyal to work, but the problem is that such an unprincipled person went to Li Guang before, and now he goes to me, the ghost knows when I am unlucky Will you stab me across the board?

Yang Peng is different.

It's too cheap to say that it's demeaning, so let's be more practical and help repair the house.

Zhang Zhoudao: "Eunuch Yang has a heart, you can keep this little matter in my family in mind."

Yang Peng hurriedly said: "Someone just found out by accident."

Zhang Zhou thought to himself, it's not that I don't know what you are capable of in Dongchang. You, a eunuch in Dongchang, can easily check anyone without explaining.

Zhang Zhoudao: "Speaking of which, it's really hard to hire a good craftsman in this market, but I'm just repairing and renovating it casually. I don't want to build new pillars and beams, so I don't need to bother Mr. Yang. What I hope is Qingning Palace It can be repaired as soon as possible and economically, so that the Empress Dowager can move in earlier, can you help me, Eunuch Yang?"

Yang Peng is a smart man.

As soon as he heard it, he understood that no matter how many things Zhang Zhou did before, they were all talking about mysterious things and talking about them.

The rebuilding of the Qingning Palace was the first time Zhang Zhou was ordered by the emperor to do business. Of course, Zhang Zhou's mind was to be beautiful for the first time.

Yang Peng said: "Let's put it this way, Mr. Zhang Xian, the original budget for the reconstruction of Qingning Palace was 12 taels, someone is here to guarantee that it will be repaired within 8 taels, and even if there are extra parts, the court will definitely not let the court spend a penny in vain. money."

(End of this chapter)